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You’ve been in your role for about a year now – what’s it been like so far? It’s been great to join Debenhams Personal Finance which has seen some huge growth over recent years across all the product areas and the card programme is a key part of this. We have a clear defined strategy to grow this even further over the next few years.

January sees slowest retail sales growth in 6 months

This private equity giant is sticking with retail

At a time when most private equity firms are growing increasingly cautious about investing in retail, one firm is going against the grain. Sycamore Partners is raising its biggest-ever fund, which it will use to invest primarily in retail, CNBC reported. The firm is looking to raise between $3 billion and $4 billion, according to the report. The news comes a month after Sycamore closed on its $6.9 billion acquisition of Staples, which it is splitting into three parts

Amazon gets bill for back taxes

Office Depot makes $1 billion acquisition

Marianne Wilson Office Depot took a first step toward its goal of transforming itself from a traditional office products retailer to a broader business services and technology products platform. read more